Mies Van der Rohe would have been 126 years old today if he had lived until now! Many Chicago buildings remain as part of his legacy. Nazi pressure forced him to close the German government-financed Bauhaus school after 1933...the Nazis rejected his style as not "German" in character. He left his homeland in 1937 and moved to Wyoming and then to Chicago to be head of architecture at the newly established Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Here he created the "Second Chicago School" which became very influential in North America and Europe...he believed that architecture should express the essence of its civilization. http://www.miessociety.org/
"God is in the Details" - "Less is More"
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This is a You Tube video showing his Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois :
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